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Mark Smeyers

Mark is the enthusiast site, Lamborghini is his passion, collecting books and scale model cars on the Sant'Agata company for decades, he has been able to visit the Lamborghini factory several times already.

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Apr 29, 2007

Lamborghini Diablo Hermidas Tuning – Guide

A French designer, Hermidas, tried his hands at the Diablo too, he altered the overall look of the Gandini designed super car but remained true to the original idea, a brutal, very stylish race car for the road. Hermidas replaced the front bumper with one using two new air intakes to cool the front disk…

Apr 28, 2007

Lamborghini Diablo (MY1990) – Guide

In June 1985, Automobili Lamborghini decided it was time to start thinking about a replacement for their legendary Countach; it would take the Lamborghini development team another five years to complete the new super car, the Diablo. The Diablo was presented to the public on January 21. 1990, at the Hotel de Paris in Monte…

Apr 25, 2007

Valentino Balboni Has Been With Lamborghini For 40 Years

A very warm congratulations from all Lamborghini enthusiasts to Valentino Balboni, legendary test driver for Automobili Lamborghini SpA for decades, and these days a valuable representative for the Raging Bull make. Mr Balboni has been with Automobili Lamborghini SpA for 40 years now, that’s right, almost as long as the company exists, in fact on…

Apr 24, 2007

CLUB SPECIAL APRIL 2007

How about driving your Lamborghini on an enclosed circuit together with other high performance cars ? Sounds good, so you should join the Club during one of those amazing Clubspecials events held on the famous circuit at Zandvoort, the Netherlands. During those days cars from various automobile clubs are shown on the paddock, and driven…

Apr 18, 2007

MURCIÉLAGO SUPERLEGGERA SPOTTED ?

Recently a rather special Lamborghini Murciélago was spotted during testing on the German Nurnburg Ring, this car featured black body parts like the doors and engine cover and also a rather imposing rear wing. In a recent interview, Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann stated that Automobili Lamborghini SpA will be introducing a new model, or an…

Apr 5, 2007

First Vln Race Of The 2007 Season

Successful beginning of the season: Lamborghini Gallardo GTR with some bad luck but at the end satisfying result! Untermerzbach (Germany), March 31, 2007 – The race of the last weekend at the 56th ADAC Westfalenfahrt was not a lucky one for the Lambo-Racing Team, however the team is positive for the 2007 VLN season. During…

Mar 25, 2007

FIRST FIA GT1 RACE WON BY MURCIÉLAGO R-GT

Round 1 – Zuhai, China was held this weekend, the first 80 minute training session was a difficult one with heavy rain resulting in a wet track, the competitors were all very close, with the two Lamborghini’s reaching a 7th and a 16th place. The second free training session was used to further fine tune…

Mar 17, 2007

Lamborghini Diablo S-SV – Guide

The unique Lamborghini seen here was delivered from the factory as a ‘normal’ Diablo SV but apparently the current owner wanted to create something special, so he started working on a way to improve the looks of this magnificent car. The massive work performed on this Diablo really shows, the ultra deep front spoiler in…